Quality Assurance Automation Lead - Cypress/Playwright Testing (10-15 yrs)

Job Description :

Responsibilities :

Test Automation Strategy :

- In this role, you will serve as the primary advocate for test automation best practices across the organization.

- You will establish, document, and enforce standards to ensure that automation efforts are consistent, efficient, and effective.

- A critical responsibility will be to enhance automation coverage while simultaneously reducing reliance on manual testing, with the goal of achieving near-complete automation.

Collaboration and Guidance :

- Collaboration with QA engineers and developers will be a key aspect of your role, as you work together to ensure comprehensive test coverage.

- You will be responsible for creating and maintaining automated tests while also guiding team members in integrating automation into their workflows. Additionally, you will educate the team on the benefits of test automation and demonstrate how to leverage it effectively.

Monitoring and Analysis of Test Results :

- Another important aspect of this role involves monitoring and analyzing test results by setting up robust reporting systems.

- You will identify trends in test failures and provide actionable insights to the development team.

- Using data from test runs, you will proactively address potential issues before they escalate and help prioritize development tasks.

Test Infrastructure Innovation :

- You will ensure that the test infrastructure remains robust, resilient, and scalable. This includes maintaining existing systems while planning for future growth and incorporating advancements in automation technologies and methodologies.

- Your goal will be to continuously improve the infrastructure to handle increasing complexity and scale, ensuring that the product maintains the high quality expected by its users. This position is central to driving automation excellence, enabling efficient testing workflows, and maintaining product quality as the organization evolves.

Requirements :

Must have skills :

- 10+ years of experience testing software through automation tools such as Cypress/Jest/Mocha/Playwright etc for a SaaS product. This experience helps you understand the software development life cycle and the pitfalls of buggy software.

- Since our integration test suite is written in Cypress or Playwright, prior knowledge of working on this framework will help you hit the ground running.

- Our client-side code is written in React. Your understanding of contemporary browser frameworks such as React/Angular will ensure that you are able to understand and communicate the nuances of the product with the rest of the engineering team.

- Software products are only as stable as the APIs they are built on. You should have a good understanding of RESTful APIs and should have worked on API testing tools like Postman before.

- Being able to express your thoughts in code through JavaScript (JS) or TypeScript (TS) is essential to your success since our automation test suites are written in these languages.

- The ability to represent a user base in our automation suite is critical to providing a great experience to users.

- All automation suites require CI/CD pipelines and SQL databases. Familiarity with both will help you stand above the crowd.

Nice to have skills :

- Having worked on developer-focused products is an added bonus. This helps you understand our users and their requirements better.

- Prior experience with unit testing through Jest/JUnit will help you break shackles and contribute to the code base across the board.

- We value speed and performance within our product. Being able to write load testing/performance testing scripts will go a long way in keeping our developer users happy.